Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 26, 1959

Anna Lucasta (Longridge; United Artists), in the course of its on-again,
off-again success story, has suffered more color changes than a traffic
light. As first written, back in 1936, Anna was a backstreets
melodrama in which Playwright Philip Yordan rummaged among some white
trash in a small town. The principal characters were poor Poles, and
the heroine was described by one playgoer as "a sort of squarehead
Camille." When the play, as written, failed to get a Broadway opening,
Playwright Yordan remaindered the rights to the American Negro Theater.
The white trash became...